Cinema 4D Lite Feature List

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Cinema 4D Lite overview

Cinema 4D Lite is a simplified version of Cinema 4D and is specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with Adobe After Effects. Cinema 4D Lite is typically included as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, and it comes bundled with After Effects.

Cinema 4D Lite is a valuable tool for motion graphics artists and video editors who want to incorporate 3D elements into their After Effects projects without the need for a separate 3D software package. While it may not have the extensive feature set of the full version of Cinema 4D, it serves as a capable introduction to 3D design within the Adobe ecosystem. 

General workflows

  • Available in 11 Languages
  • Color Chooser
  • Commander
  • Context-sensitive Help
  • Windows and macOS
  • Custom User Data per Object
  • Customizable Layout
  • Essential presets
  • Layer System for Objects and Materials
  • Multiple Projects Open at Once
  • Object Highlighting
  • Picture Viewer
  • Solo Button
  • To Do List

Modeling

  • Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
  • Spline Tools
  • Subdivision surfaces
  • Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect, Python
  • Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background

Animation

  • Timeline - up to four timeline windows with customizable track display and Dope Sheet or F-Curve view modes
  • Automatic keyframing
  • Constant-velocity option per track
  • XPresso

MoGraph (limited)

  • Effectors: Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time using Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, Python, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time, and Volume
  • Fracture object

Pipeline

  • CINEWARE Compatible
  • Image Format: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR, HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF, BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA
  • Import only: DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX, DEM, LWS, STL, VRML2, OBJ, COLLADA, Alembic, DDS, glTF, USD

Notable omissions in C4D Lite

  • Polygonal Modeling
  • Full MoGraph
  • Sculpting
  • Dynamics and Simulation
  • Pyro
  • Character Animation
  • Scene Nodes
  • Sketch and Toon Materials and Rendering
  • Third‑party plugin support
  • Redshift
  • Pipeline Export

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